Zerrin Taşpınar

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Zerrin Taşpınar (* 1947 in Ankara ) is a Turkish - Alevi poet and writer.

Becoming and working

Taspinar wrote his own poems in his early years, some of which were also published. The main themes of her writing are the Alevi religion around Pir Sultan Abdal and human rights .

In the early 1990s she was a member of the Pir Sultan Abdal Association and a women's rights association in Ankara. Taspinar was one of the survivors of the attack on the Madımak Hotel in 1993 . From 1995 to 1998 she was the secretary of a literary association, then she was involved in the TYS association in Ankara until 2000. During this phase, Taspinar also survived the Marmara earthquake on August 17, 1999, in which more than 50,000 people lost their lives. After the earthquake she wrote two books and distributed them to the utterly destitute street children. She was honored by the Emekciler Kadinlar , a German women's association in Ankara.

Most recently she worked for the Turkish broadcaster TRT and in 2006 signed an appeal with 323 other celebrities (including Yaşar Kemal and Mehmed Uzun ) with demands and proposals for peace and a solution to the Kurdish question.

Works

  • Bir Ardic Kusuyum Ben (1992)
  • Anilarda Simdi (1994)
  • Tavra (1995)
  • Kuş Kanadından Öyküler (1999)
  • : Kuş Kanadından Masallar (1999)

Poems (selection)

  • Request
  • Anılarda Simdi
  • Ardıç Kuşu ve Sevda
  • Atlar I-IV
  • Ben Seni Her Yerde
  • Çağsız Dokumacı
  • Demetevler Parkında Eylül I-IV
  • İpek Bir Mendil
  • Kızın Elinde Oya
  • Turkuaz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KURDISTAN RUNDBRIEF / 064: For self-determination u. Human Rights No. 1 ( Memento of February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Zerrin Taşpınar: Bir Ardıç Kuşuyum Ben - Zerrin Taşpınar -. In: kitapyurdu.com. Retrieved December 20, 2018 (Turkish).
personal data
SURNAME Taşpınar, Zerrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-Alevi poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara